RD:

Yes, he does, though he was, for a long time, less involved than some other family members.

Inherit The Wind, October 4 at 9:02 am

Thanks for the clarification. Frist has a certain monetary interest in the form of health care reform obviously, whether in charge of a portion of the family enterprise or not.

Ardee:

Actually, what the Frists own is HCA, formerly Columbia HCA—the largest hospital corp in America.  Sen. Frist’s brother, Tommy Jr. was the long-time COB, and he’s an unprincipled SOB.  He’s not even on the board, but Tommy III is.

Bill Frist’s history on health care (other than that stupid video incident) was always much more reasoned than most Republicans.  Actually, though, lots of hospitals WANT a health care package—they stand to make more even with single payer and they would LOVE to have the Government pick up the costs of uninsured ER patients, which is where the 50 million uninsured Americans get their health care.

Frist was a terrible Majority Leader—we haven’t seen a decent one from either party since Daschle lost his seat and we haven’t seen an actual GOOD Majority Leader since Bob Dole quit to run against Clinton in 1996. (Obviously, I see the ML as a technical job of both rallying the troops and working successfully with the opposition party).  But before that, for a GOP sen, he was OK, not a total tool like Oren Hatch, or a moronic fascist like Kyl and Imhofe.

Conservative Frist is just trying to get on the Bandwagon to try and make his Republican Party look better, since he has gathered that there will be a Health Care Bill passed that hopefully will have a robust public option.

Mr. Frist, whose family owns one of the largest HMO’s, Humana, will be forever known as the doctor who diagnosed by video tape, and got it wrong. He seems, however to have gotten this one right, yet one must wonder how effective a reform if those who own the businesses support said reform.